Doonsheheen

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonsheheen, from 410 m² to 234,433 m² (23.44 ha, 57.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonsheheen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of an agricultural shed together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2378

• 28 Nov 2022Conditional

  development consisting of extension of existing dwelling house and install a new on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system

  Outline permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22403

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL034-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 19m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-NW, with remnants of a stone kerb along the base of the internal face and by a scarp (H 1m) NW-NE. The line of an external fosse is evident as boggy ground with a band (Wth 3.3m) of rushes and irises. The bank S-WNW is incorporated into a field boundary with an external recut fosse. The perimeter is overgrown with hawthorn bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-059 Hut site
  Description

  In rough pasture, near the top of a N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular earthen structure (int. diam. 5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m). Some stones protrude from the base of the internal face of the bank. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.8m) at E. The interior slopes down to N. There is a rath (SL034-060----) c. 40m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the NW-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. 22m N-S) enclosed by a heavily eroded earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.5m), incorporated into a field boundary W-NNE. A possible external fosse is evident as a band of rushes (Wth 2m) in boggy ground. The southern perimeter is overgrown with gorse. A hut site (SL034-059----) lies c. 40m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-127 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular embanked area (c. 25m x 28m) is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map on the W side of a road. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. There is a field clearance mound to NW. Heapstown cairn (SL034-128----) is c. 90m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonsheheen.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Doonsheheen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonsheheen.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Doonsheheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Doonsheheen · Dún Seithín

Area

1,064,144 m² (106.41 ha, 262.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lakeview, the unit of the census

Census 2022

511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Carrowreagh, Cartronroe, Corlisheen, Drumraine, Heapstown, Knocknacross

Placenames

Doonsheheen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.